Book description
Release Date: October 2, 2012
A riveting historical narrative of
the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy,
and the follow-up to mega-bestselling author Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Lincoln.
More than a million readers have thrilled to Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Lincoln,
the page-turning work of nonfiction about the shocking assassination
that changed the course of American history. Now the anchor of The O’Reilly Factor;
recounts in gripping detail the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald
Kennedy–and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only
killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic
division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.
In January 1961, as the Cold War escalates, John F.
Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of Communism while he learns the
hardships, solitude, and temptations of what it means to be president
of the United States. Along the way he acquires a number of formidable
enemies, among them Soviet
leader Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, and Alan Dulles,
director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In addition, powerful
elements of organized crime have begun to talk about targeting the
president and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
In the midst of a 1963 campaign trip to Texas,
Kennedy is gunned down by an erratic young drifter named Lee Harvey
Oswald. The former Marine Corps sharpshooter escapes the scene, only to be caught and shot dead while in police custody.
The events leading up to the most notorious crime of the twentieth century are almost as shocking as the assassination itself. Killing Kennedy chronicles
both the heroism and deceit of Camelot, bringing history to life in
ways that will profoundly move the reader. This may well be the most
talked about book of the year.
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